AI Coding Tools Have a Context Problem — Here's the Fix

The Wrong Unit of Context Most AI coding tools work at the file level . That's fine for a React component. A component is self-contained — the context needed to help you fits in the file. Backend services aren't self-contained. They live inside environments. They share infrastructure. They depend on modules installed at the workspace level. This is why AI backend debugging suggestions are often... almost right. They're missing environment context. What a Backend AI Actually Needs Take this error